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    CVE-2008-3111

    Multiple buffer overflows in Sun Java Web Start in JDK and JRE 6 before Update 4, JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 16, and SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_18 allow context-dependent attackers to gain privileges via an untrusted application, as demonstrated by (a) an application that grants itself privileges to (1) read local files, (2) write to local files, or (3) execute local programs; and as demonstrated by (b) a long value associated with a java-vm-args attribute in a j2se tag in a JNLP file, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow in the GetVMArgsOption function; aka CR 6557220.

    Published:Jul 8, 2008
    Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
    EPS:Jul 9, 2008
    EPSS Score:0.13359
    CVSS Score:10

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Network Satellite
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Rhel Extras
    Vendor
    Sun
    Product
    Jdk
    Vendor
    Sun
    Product
    Jre
    Vendor
    Sun
    Product
    Sdk

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    CAPEC-100 Overflow Buffers
    CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting
    CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    CAPEC-109 Object Relational Mapping Injection
    CAPEC-110 SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering
    CAPEC-120 Double Encoding
    CAPEC-123 Buffer Manipulation
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-135 Format String Injection
    CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection
    CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation
    CAPEC-182 Flash Injection
    CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch
    CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client
    CAPEC-23 File Content Injection
    CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads
    CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads
    CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-250 XML Injection
    CAPEC-261 Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-28 Fuzzing
    CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
    CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies
    CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion
    CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    CAPEC-44 Overflow Binary Resource File
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags
    CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof
    CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes
    CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash
    CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS
    CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()
    CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection
    CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-72 URL Encoding
    CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-81 Web Server Logs Tampering
    CAPEC-83 XPath Injection
    CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting
    CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection
    CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

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    References

    http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00008.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00005.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00000.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00002.html
    http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122331139823057&w=2
    http://secunia.com/advisories/31010
    http://secunia.com/advisories/31055
    http://secunia.com/advisories/31320
    http://secunia.com/advisories/31497
    http://secunia.com/advisories/31600
    http://secunia.com/advisories/31736
    http://secunia.com/advisories/32018
    http://secunia.com/advisories/32179
    http://secunia.com/advisories/32180
    http://secunia.com/advisories/37386
    http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
    http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-238905-1
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3178
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3179
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0595.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0790.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494505/100/0/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497041/100/0/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30148
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020452
    http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-193A.html
    http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0016.html
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2056/references
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2740
    http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-043/
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43664
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10541
    http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00008.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00005.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00000.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00002.html
    http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122331139823057&w=2
    http://secunia.com/advisories/31010
    http://secunia.com/advisories/31055
    http://secunia.com/advisories/31320
    http://secunia.com/advisories/31497
    http://secunia.com/advisories/31600
    http://secunia.com/advisories/31736
    http://secunia.com/advisories/32018
    http://secunia.com/advisories/32179
    http://secunia.com/advisories/32180
    http://secunia.com/advisories/37386
    http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
    http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-238905-1
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3178
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3179
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0595.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0790.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494505/100/0/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497041/100/0/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30148
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020452
    http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-193A.html
    http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0016.html
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2056/references
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2740
    http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-043/
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43664
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10541

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High